A retrospective study compared progression-free and overall survival of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy with conventional intraperitoneal chemotherapy in patients with ovarian cancer.

Interest in the intraperitoneal delivery of chemotherapy to patients with ovarian cancer with minimal residual disease following initial cytoreductive surgery has been rekindled with the recent ...

“We have run out of chemotherapy options for this patient, so we have referred them for surgical evaluation to see if cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC is an option.” Clearly not all patients with PM ...

Visakhapatnam: Doctors at KIMS, Seethammadhara successfully performed a nearly nine-hour-long advanced surgical procedure on a 42-year-old woman suffering from ovarian cancer.The procedure ...

In over 400 women at first epithelial ovarian cancer recurrence, those who received HIPEC had a median OS of 54.3 months compared with 45.8 months for those who did not (HR 0.73, 95% CI 0.56-0.96, P=0 ...

CHICAGO — Intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy is now an alternative to intravenous (IV) administration that "must be discussed" for women with cytoreduced ovarian cancer, several experts said here at ...

CRS-HIPEC stands for cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. It’s pronounced “high-peck.” This treatment is for people with cancer that has spread to the lining of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this video, Robert DeBernardo, MD, discusses his research on hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy among ...

Phase III Study of Adjuvant Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy Compared With Chemotherapy Alone in the Surgical Adjuvant Treatment of Colon Cancer: Results of Intergroup Protocol 0130 The study ...

Median progression-free survival (PFS) improved from 23 months with surgery alone to 25 months with the addition of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), a nonsignificant difference. Post ...

Adding hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy to surgery did not improve progression-free survival in platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer. Among patients with platinum-sensitive peritoneal ...